The lads slightly pissed and a tree...

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I always forget the title and author of this story - Doyle vanishes on Bodie because he's ill, I think, and ends up in a relative's cottage in tiny village somewhere, with all his painting gear. Bodie tracks him down of course, and they go out to the pub and have way too much, and come back gorgeously drunk along a path - I think by a river - and one of them bumps into a tree and wonders why they didn't notice it in the middle of the path on the way to the pub... or something similar, but the way it's written always makes me giggle...

Any ideas anyone?! Help!